By combining a wide range of perspectives from young women of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, the Philadelphia podcast Girl Truth: What Lens Are You Looking Through? is inspiring people...
“However many neighborhoods there are in Philadelphia,” said artist James Hough, who was incarcerated at SCI Graterford for 27 years, “that prison is an extra one, because the people that...
Every picture may tell a story, but who owns the art? The artist? The subject? The space and community that houses the work? Whose story is really being told? For local...
We are currently living in a world where the limits on love, relationships, and gender are ever expanding, and while members of the LGBTQ+ community are afforded more safety and...
South Philadelphian Mia Concepcion recently became Philadelphia’s Youth Poet Laureate, a position with a city-wide platform, mentoring, performance opportunities, and stipend. Poetry started as a hobby for Mia. This...
It’s well documented that Philadelphia is a patchwork of neighborhoods, people, resources, and needs. An enduring challenge for nonprofits and the people who run them is figuring out how to bridge...
Have you ever wondered if there was some small thing you could do for your neighbors if you got to know them well enough—and if there was something they could...
When AmeriCorps grant coordinator Tanza Pugliese nominated Andrew Dalke for YouthBuild USA’s Outstanding AmeriCorps Member Spirit of Service Award, she had no doubts about the connection Dalke had to the...
Since its creation in 2016, Urban Consulate has helped facilitate conversations in across the country on how to create better communities. On a cool summer evening at Philadelphia’s placid Cherry...
Sonalee Rashatwar (who uses she/her or they/them pronouns), a “superfat queer bisexual non-binary therapist,” brings their identity to the job every day as clinical social worker, sex therapist, adjunct lecturer,...